Medical Disease
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A Discussion of the Risk Factors for Congestive Heart Disease
Congestive heart disease affects approximately five million Americans, and some medical professionals believe that within five years time approximately half of those people will unfortunately die from their condition. Congestive heart disease is marked by the heart's inability to pump efficiently enough to supply the body with freshly oxygenated blood. It is the leading cause of hospitalization among senior citizens and accounted for nearly 20% of the hospitalization of this age group in 2003. Read More...
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Imagine, More Funding For Medical Research To Develop More New Treatments!
The President wants more funding alloted for Medical Research and Development for the purpose of finding more new treatments for disease.
I am all for more money for Research and Development for the Medical Industry. However, why, are they only looking for new treatments? Why not find some cures?
Why is "treatment" the only answer that doctors are being taught today? Wouldn't it be a lot better all the way around for everyone if we were healthy and not having to take 10 to 12 pills every day?
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History of Crohns Disease
Crohn?s disease, a disease belonging to the larger group of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), is named after an American gastroenterologist, Dr. Burrill B. Crohn. Crohn's disease initially came to be known as a medical entity when it was referred to by Dr. Crohn, Dr. Leon Ginzburg, and Dr. Gordon D. Oppenheimer in 1932. The first description of this condition was earlier made by the Italian physician Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682?1771) in 1769, when he diagnosed a young man with a chronic, d Read More...
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